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SARAPATA -& P. SOUVAZOGLU.

GIGAR 0R CIGARETTE No.'527,724. Patented Oct. 16-, 18.94.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

PAUL G. SARAPATA AND PERIOLES SOUVAZOGLU, OF MANCHESTER,

ENGLAND.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,724, dated October16,1894.

Application filed June 18, 1894. Serial No. 514,889. (No model.)

Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and efficient meansfor lighting a cigar or cigarette without the aid or application ofmatches, fuses or any-other external and detached means of ignition.This may be effected by the attachment to the end of the cigarorcigarette of a fulminating substance or composition which by frictionon anysuitable surface explodes and ignites an inflammable substancewhich retains the fire a sufficient time to lightthe cigar or cigarette.

The fixing or attachment of the inflammable and fulminating substance tothe cigar or cigarette so that the latter will become self-lighting ismade in such a way that it can be supplied and sold with the cigar orcigarette, and will not be liable to become detached therefrom until ithas fulfilled its purpose of ignition.

For the sake of illustration we have annexed hereto a sheet of drawingsshowing our method of applying the same to a cigarette.

Figure 1 on the annexed drawings shows a cigarette with the self-lighterready to be attached. Fig. 2 represents the same with the self-lighterin place. Fig. 3 is a similar view with a stilf paper tube holding thesame in place, and Fig. 4 shows the same with the stifi paper tube drawnto the other end so as to form a mouth-piece.

We apply to-the end of anordinary cigarette a (see Fig. 1 on thedrawings) a bent strip 1) of paper, papier mach or other materialprepared with salt peter or other chemical substance which will cause itto smoulder when ignited and onto the center of which is dropped a smallpatch a of fulminate such as is used for matches. The strip of paper I)is held in place on the cigarette by means of a short paper tube 01(Fig. 3) which is passed over it and keeps it in place as seen at Fig.4. As soon as the cigarette is lighted the paper tube 1) may be slid tothe other end forming a convenient mouth-piece as shown in Fig. 4:. Thislatter remark applies of course only to cigarettes which are cylindricalin form.

"For cigars the tube (1 is slipped off the end carrying the igniter withit as soon as the cigar is lighted.

We claim as our invention 1. The combination of a cigar or cigarettewith an igniter bent over the end of a cigar or cigarette, and a papertube passed over the same end to keep the igniter in place,substantially as hereinbefore described.

2., The combination of a cigarette, with an igniter bent over the endthereof, and a movable paper tube passed over the same end to keep theigniter in place,the said tube adapted to be slid to the other end ofthe cigarette to form a mouth piece, substantially as set forth. Intestimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. PAUL O. SARAPATA.

PERIOLES SOUVAZOGLU. Witnesses:

GEORGE DAVIS, J no. HUGHES.

